But what happens if something goes wrong with the phone and you're not able to restore the original OS....your warranty is void and then you're fucked. To me the benefits of a few extra apps, would not be worth paying for another new iPhone.

Read the first sentence....Apple is working on something to prevent jailbreaking anyway. It's just not out.....yet. I wouldn't be surprised if they install some kind of software to your phone that sends some indicator to Apple itself....who knows.

Tell the kid to leave your kids stuff alone, unless you or your wife gave direct permission to alter the phone in any way shape or form.

SP:

98.4% correct on your statement, the iPhone can be restored to ORIGINAL FACTORY DEFAULTS when synced with iTunes and restored. The one thing I would be concerned with in your statement is that Apple doesn't know... I have a sneaky feeling they do.
Ever notice when you do a restore on your iPhone that little pop up that comes up and says "VERIFYING iPHONE RESTORE WITH APPLE" to me that would indicate that they are looking at your iPhones current state (jailbroken or legit reason for restore) and checking what OS version you are running. I am thinking if it rings back that it is in fact jailbroken the serial number is recorded in a database somewhere and the big warranty rejection stamp comes out.

BBB:

I am in the same boat, I am not interested in a jailbreak to gain a couple cool apps at the risk of doing something drastically wrong. I am not against it at all and might grab a used iPod touch to JB, but I won't run the risk on my iPhone 4.

Ever notice when you do a restore on your iPhone that little pop up that comes up and says "VERIFYING iPHONE RESTORE WITH APPLE" to me that would indicate that they are looking at your iPhones current state (jailbroken or legit reason for restore) and checking what OS version you are running. I am thinking if it rings back that it is in fact jailbroken the serial number is recorded in a database somewhere and the big warranty rejection stamp comes out.

I'm not saying that Apple couldn't still be doing something like that, but the "Verifying iPhone Restore Message" checks to see what firmware you are trying to install (not what's already installed). After a certain time, Apple stops allowing you to downgrade.

Of course, new hardware comes every year, and Apple decided to strike hard with the new iPhone 3G[S]. Rather than just throw in new local protections, Apple decided that every restore of the device would be verified as being valid and safe by Apple itself.

To do this, during the restore process, users see "Verifying restore with Apple...", during which time a challenge/response protocol is used between the iPhone and Apple: a "partial digest" of the firmware files being used is sent to a server, which can then decide to sign off on the result... or not.

Not only does this allow Apple to keep custom firmwares from getting loaded onto the device, but it also allows them to recall existing firmwares by keeping people from restoring to them in the future. To do this they simply would refuse to ever sign, for example, iPhoneOS 3.0 again.

Hey Mike, don't worry you're ok. If you want to get rid of the jailbreak all you have to do is restore the phone using itunes. I have my 3GS jailbroken and love it. If at any point in time, the phone should act strange where I need to send it in, I just restore it and they CANNOT tell that it was tampered with.

you look can this information up online if you don't believe me...

there was a new way to hack it by simply going to jailbreakme.com or some site and it would do it for you, no computer needed.

Keep in mind there is a recent update for the iphone 4.0.2. If she updates the phone to this version, the jailbreak will be gone anyways. I have mine at 4.0.1

Thanks Kevin. I'll let it slide for the time being. Good to know, thanks again for the clarification.

You're always able to restore direct from itunes no problem. Infact I had a signal issue with Rogers some time ago and they suggested to restore and set phone as new which I did and it helped. Also when the ios4 software came out for the iphones somepeople were reporting slow phones so the fix was to restore as new phone, and this came from Apple..

Aside from some of above mentioned uses for jailbreaking, you can use those wifi only apps by tricking your phone into thinking its using wifi. This is great in going to youtube and not getting just the crummy data stream, but the wifi stream. Also you can install a program called "installous" and you can insteall hundreds of apps for free instead of paying, direct to your phone with no computer needed. I know someone who uses this and it's crazy the apps he has. Also exclusive to the iphone 4 was imovie, and facetime. By jailberaking, you can install these apps..

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